Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
Not on Speaking Terms: Clinical Strategies to Resolve Family and Friendship Cutoffs
Relationship breaks children from parents; friends from one another; between siblings are a common issue in therapy. Given the magnitude of the problem and the pain it causes, it is surprising that... (more)
Success for Modern Day Relationships: Working with Dating, Engaged, and Married Couples
Success for Modern Day Relationships: Working with Dating, Engaged, and Married Couples is a compilation of practical, effective, empirically tested techniques and interventions that allow a... (more)
Decisive Parenting: Strategies That Work with Teenagers
Decisive Parenting teaches parents concrete skills for quickly and permanently altering their teenagers' problem behaviors, ranging from argumentativeness and neglecting chores or homework to more... (more)
Play Therapy with Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing
Play Therapy and Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing provides a thorough description of play from prominent academics, researchers, and relevant writers who review it historically. It... (more)
Keeping Couples in Treatment: Working from Surface to Depth
Keeping Couples in Treatment: Working from Surface to Depth is written for the beginning or seasoned therapist who wants to learn a powerful and effective in-depth approach for keeping couples in... (more)
Mothering without a Home: Attachment Representations and Behaviors of Homeless Mothers and Children
Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in their earliest attachments. These multiple, chronic... (more)
The Origins of Family Psychotherapy: The NIMH Family Study Project
Family therapy has become a well-established treatment modality across many mental health disciplines including clinical social work, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and counseling. This book tells... (more)
Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering: A Trauma-informed Approach to Planning, Assessing and Good Practice
Most children who are fostered or adopted have some level of contact with their birth family, whether face-to-face or by letter, but most of the time the psychological impact of contact on the child... (more)
Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists
Showing how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, this indispensable text and practitioner guide is reader friendly, straightforward, and practical. Specific strategies are provided for... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Research Methods in Family Therapy: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice
A research methods text with a unique focus on evidence-based practice with couples and families, this book bridges the divide between research and clinical work. The text offers comprehensive,... (more)
Solving Modern Family Dilemmas: An Assimilative Therapy Model
Context is the unifying principle that guides a therapist's formulation of the modern family's presenting dilemmas, functioning, relationships, and attitudes. We can no longer assume that a family is... (more)
Common Complaints in Couple Therapy: New Approaches to Treating Marital Conflict
Marriage and couple therapists see clients with broken relationships and bonds all the time; those who were once madly in love can grow indifferent, people change, and couples go into sessions... (more)
Emotions and the Therapist: A Systemic-Dialogical Approach
In recent years, systemic theory and practice adopted a dialogical orientation, centred on the persons of the therapist and client. This has led to a growing attention toward emotions, which, in this... (more)
The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives
This classic Family Therapy text continues to provide "a new and more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle," reflecting changes in society away from orientation... (more)
Sexual Healing: Stories and Insights from the Therapist's Couch
Through tales of adultery and addiction, desire and its loss, good sex, bad sex and no sex, sexual power struggles, and childhood abuse, this book covers the big questions about sex: what is the... (more)
Working Therapeutically with Families
This resource provides a wealth of activities to use in therapeutic work with families, tailored to meet the particular needs of different types of family. In this book, chapters are organized by... (more)
Finding a Voice: Family Therapy for Young People with Anorexia
Young people develop anorexia because they are unhappy. In the process of becoming anorexic they silence themselves and distance themselves from parental support. Family therapy can help patients by... (more)
Mindfulness in Sexual and Relationship Therapy
Mindfulness represents the most significant shift in the world of counselling and psychotherapy within the last decade. Mindful approaches have been hailed as the 'third wave' of cognitive... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Couples and Families: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
From a leading expert in cognitive-behavioral therapy and couple and family therapy, this comprehensive guide combines cutting-edge research and clinical wisdom. The author shows how therapeutic... (more)
The Baby and the Couple: Understanding and Treating Young Families
The Baby and the Couple provides an insider's view on how infant communication develops in the context of the family and how parents either work together as a team or struggle in the process. The... (more)
Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience
Positive Couple Therapy: Using We-Stories to Enhance Resilience is a significant step forward in the couple literature. Utilizing a strengths-based approach, it teaches therapists and couples a... (more)
Patterns in Interpersonal Interactions: Inviting Relational Understandings for Therapeutic Change
This book presents a comprehensive view of a systemic approach to working with families, initiated by Karl Tomm more than two decades ago at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre in Canada. The... (more)
The Distracted Couple: The Impact of ADHD on Adult Relationships
The Distracted Couple identifies the aspects of adult ADHD that impact marriages and relationships, and provides a number of interventions, strategies and treatments to effectively address these... (more)
The Love Secret: The Revolutionary Science of Romantic Relationships
We are in danger of being swept away on a tide of pessimism about love and relationships. Endless cynical stories of affairs by politicians, athletes and celebrities fill the media. The dominant... (more)
Existential Perspectives on Relationship Therapy
Human beings live in constant battle with issues that are fundamental to their existence. Whether it is a fear of death or problems with intimacy, learning to live with these issues whilst loving... (more)
Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love
In this seminal new study of family, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who learn to deal with their exceptional children and find profound meaning in doing so. He introduces us to families... (more)
The Emotionally Focused Therapist Training Set
The Emotionally Focused Therapist Training Set offers two valuable products, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook and The Casebook at a discount of 10%. Written primarily by... (more)
Sons and Fathers: Challenges to Paternal Authority
Father-son relationships can be notoriously difficult. Often fractious, sometimes hostile, and occasionally destructive, the issue of authority is negotiated by fathers and sons in a range of styles.... (more)
Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is commonplace and devastating and is a major public health concern. In Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence, Anna Motz integrates psychological and criminological... (more)
Reconcilable Differences: Rebuild Your Relationship by Rediscovering the Partner You Love: Second Edition
If only he could see things from my point of view. Why does she have to act that way? No matter how much two people love each other, their differences will eventually cause conflict. This popular,... (more)